"Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships."

-- Harriet Lerner

#Relationship Quotes #Intimate Quotes #Substitutes Quotes

“You're never gonna find the perfect politician.”
“A long walk and grooming with a well-mannered dog is a Zen experience that leaves you refreshed and in a creative frame of mind.”
“If you walk out of the house and think you feel great, or if someone tells you that you look amazing, believe it and just say thank you.”
“You're not living if you don't go out and try things for yourself.”
“Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.”

Source : Rene Daumal (2003). “A Night of Serious Drinking”, p.21, The Overlook Press
“Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing.”
“Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.”

Source : Francis Pharcellus Church (2009). “Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa”, p.16, Delacorte Press
“Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the fish are smaller than the pencils we use to count them.”

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